Echoes in the First Person

Echoes in the First Person is a narrative documentary‑editing podcast that restores overlooked historical figures to the center of their own stories through first‑person performance, archival research, and cinematic sound design. Written and performed by Michael...

Ruth Henshaw Bascom Diary Transcription Project

In 2027 the Colonial Society of Massachusetts will publish a digital transcription of the Ruth Henshaw Bascom Papers, 1789-1846, transcribed by Mary Eileen Fouratt and edited by Maureen Egan and Sally Hadden. The original RHB Papers are held at the...

Papers of John Hancock

The Colonial Society of Massachusetts selected Jeffrey Griffith to curate, transcribe, and publish letters authored and received by John Hancock. In both printed and digital form, over 4,000 letters from 1754-1793 have been transcribed, annotated, and indexed, with...

coloniaLab

coloniaLab is a workshop for the collaborative editing of manuscripts and rare books related to early Latin America. We seek to produce accurate and accessible versions, and we also reflect on theoretical aspects of the digital editing of colonial and...

Viola Muse Digital Edition

The Viola Muse Digital Edition (VMDE) presents the notes and drafts prepared by Viola B. Muse (1898-1981), who worked from 1936 through 1939 as an interviewer and writer in the Negro Writers Unit of the Florida Federal Writers Project in Jacksonville, Florida. The...